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Of course it does. She doesn't trust people who don't deserve it.

...though she does have a love for shady people who are actually good people, life just happened. Her brother is super soldier special ops, so you know.

He's absolutely assassinated people.

Yeah, well. My history isn't much better. There wasn't much for six-eared monkeys with shadow powers to do back then.

Exactly.

And Wash is like...the only other parent aged adult I've met in a long time who takes it as seriously as you do.

Hits that balance of not being patronizing, but also gets...we're kids. Like I've never seen someone try so hard to get Raph to actually talk about his issues, but also not totally scare him off about it, which is not an easy needle to thread.

You're kids who have been through a lot. Anyone who wouldn't try to help, I question how their mind works. [ Macaque still isn't sure he's the right one or the best one for the job, but these kids chose him, he can't and won't go back on it or give up. Unless they decide they're done with him. ]

I'm not a good person, I just like you two. You're easy to like.

People easily buy into the adultification of kids and believe it applies to all aspects of life and not just the parents they had to get good at instead of developing in a more univeral manner.

She's easy to like. My batting average is a lot lower.

You're forgetting that I liked you first. [ He's just saying. Korone is great, he cares impossibly much about her given the relatively short time they've known one another, but Donnie was what pulled him in. ]

You don't need to worry about being more adultified for now. Just let me take care of you both. Eve too.

[Oh no, being liked. TOLD he's liked.]

[There's another sniff.]

I'm just saying. Some of that is you. That you care.

I have a feeling we could go round and round for a while about this. But you do believe me, I hope. That I care, and nothing's going to change that.

Why would you say you like someone and not mean it?

Why, indeed. It seemed like you needed a fair amount of convincing, so I was making sure.

You're the one who needed convincing that the care you act like is a foregone conclusion is easily felt by others.

If someone doesn't like you or care about you, they're an idiot.

[He shrugs.] I'm abrasive and difficult to understand.

I haven't found you difficult to understand, even when you're not talking. Some people just don't try very hard.

Most people don't understand the neurodivergence. It does take work. It took my family a while to figure it all out.

Except Leo.

Leo is fairly accurate ninety percent of the time.

[EXCEPT WHEN HE'S BEING DUMB AND SELF LOATHING APPARENTLY.]

Most people are missing out, then. You weren't so hard to figure out, and you jumped at the chance to help me when we barely knew each other. Them not being smart enough to get you isn't your fault.

I think maybe you're just neurodivergent too.

That's usually the case when someone gets it fast.

Really? Huh. Not something I ever considered.

How do you know?

Usually there's symptoms. Often media can help. Growing up how my family did, we didn't really have a reference for what was neurotypical. Even dad who grew up human had a lot of trauma and mystic bullshit to deal with.

And the Depression.

Also mental health was atrocious most of his life.

But then I looked up stuff online about a character I identified with and then saw a lot of talk about them being written as autistic, and then a lot of other things started matching up on the list when I looked up symptoms and there was....there was a lot that I checked off.

Like you obviously suffer from over stimulation because of your hearing, which may not be a sign of any other neurodivergence, buuut the tricks to help with overstimulation may still help you.

Also, you almost definitely have PTSD.

I'm not sure about the PTSD thing, it might just be that, torture dimensions aside, dying and then coming back isn't the most normal thing, there's bound to be some effects.

If there's tricks for dealing with my hearing being so sensitive though, I'd be stupid to not at least hear what they are.

PTSD does not have a requirement for how severe or typical the trauma is, the point is how are you reacting to it after and how does it mess you up. There's no normal about what the Kraang did, and I got several new triggers from that.

Hm, I can compile them. Most of the time just isolating and noise canceling headphones worked for me, and we figured those out before Mikey and I went on our psychology bender, so we didn't examine it too far.

I do have headphones that work pretty well, but I try to only use them sparingly. Not being able to hear what's going on can be dangerous.

Compile away. Seems like you'd be good at that.

I could make a sensor that can alerts you of things when you have them in? I've done things like that before, when senses were taken away in the Temple.

I am.

That sort of thing only works when it's a proximity thing, right? In my case I'm probably better off being able to hear. That's how Korone called for me a couple of weeks ago. For example.

It's fine, I'm used to it. I mostly use the headphones for my phone.

I can make literally any kind of sensor, I've been in charge of my family's security systems since I was ten.

As well as destress beacons.

I should also make her and Eve an escape pods...but that wouldn't have solved the kid issue, ugh...

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